Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT)

"A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as vulnerable."

"New York just slammed the brakes on rules that would’ve prohibited fossil fuels in new homes and businesses."

"Pennsylvania will no longer seek to be part of a regional climate agreement among states in the Northeast U.S."

"New York regulators on Friday approved a water-quality permit for a long-contested pipeline that would bring natural gas to the state from Pennsylvania."

"A new report says America’s lobsters, which have been in decline since 2018, are now being overfished off New England."

"The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found."

"Massachusetts is helping to transform cranberry bogs into habitats that broaden conservation and climate change resilience."

"The number of North Atlantic right whales ticked up in 2024, according to researchers’ latest estimate of this critically endangered species. Scientists, while cautiously optimistic, said threats including entanglement in fishing gear, climate change and low birth rates still loom over efforts to save the animals from extinction."

"A federal judge in New York last month struck down the state’s Save the Hudson Act, a law that aimed to prevent Holtec International, the owner of the decommissioned Indian Point nuclear plant, from dumping over a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River."